Improvement in attachments to the cutting apparatus of harvesters



j ANDERSON &'L.; JOHNSTON. lmpmvementfln Attachmentsio-ihe Cutting Apparatus of Harvesters.

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UNITED STATES? PATENT QFFIGE.

ALEXANDER ANDEEsoN AND LEsLIE JOHNSTON, OF LoNDoN, oANADA.

IMEROVEMENT- lN ATTACH MENTS o THE currme APPARATUS or HARVESTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 115,411, dated May 30, 187 1.

We, ALEXANDER ANDEEsoN and LEsLrE JOHNSTON, both of London, in the Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented certain IIIlproved Attachments for Harvesters, of which the following is a specification:

Nature and Objects of the Invention.

Our invention relates to means for converting reaping-machines to adapt them to harvest-lodged grain and pease. Long supplementary fingers lift the lodged grain or pease and conduct them over the finger-bar, and a supplementary shoe or runner applied to the divider. supports the finger-bar at sufiicient height to avoid clods. Our improvement consists in the employment of said supplementary shoe, as stated. i

Description of the Accompanying Drawing.

Figure l'is a sectional perspective of the finger-bar of a reaping-machine having our improvement applied. Fig.2 is a perspective, on a larger scale, of one of the supplementary fingers and a fragment of the finger-bar, to illustrate its application thereto. Fig. 3 is a perspective, on about the same scale as Fig.2, of the supplementary shoe detached, the position of the point. of-the divider relatively thereto being indicated by 'dotted lines. t

Likeletters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

General Description.

. Our improved attachments are supplementary fingers A, and a supplementary shoe or runner, B, of peculiar construction. They may be supplied to a finger-bar, G, with or without a gram-table, D, and require no provision for them reception, except perforations to receive their attaching-bolts E, which may be made by the user. The supplementary fingers A are made of wood or. iron, and constructed with fiat perforated heels z to. receive attachingscrews or bolts E, passing into or through the l finger-bar O, and with sheaths or sockets y to receive the ends of the fingers proper F, and are so bent as bring their points as near as practicable to the ground lever. They are thus adapted to pass under the clinging peavines or lodged grain, lift the same to the sickle G, and conduct it over the finger-bar (3 onto the grain-table D, or. directly onto the ground. The sheaths 3 on the said supple mentary fingers A attach the same to the fingers proper F, and thus secure a lateral and vertical support, and also form guards to prevent the vines o'r straw catching on said short fingers. The supplementary shoe or runner B is applied to the divider G to support the finger-bar at proper height to avoid clods. Itis preferably composed of a metallic bar, 00, to form the sole, suitably bent, and a straight wooden bar, to, to which the said sole is clamped at itsfront end, and attached at its rear end by screws. It may, however, be made wholly of Wood or iron. It is provided at its rear end with a perforation, v, to receive an attachingbolt or screw, E, and with a shackle, u, at its point, to engage with the point of the divider, by which means it is so attached as to be capable of ready removal when not required.

Claim.

In combination with supplementary fingers A, applied to the fingers as herein described, the supplementary shoe B applied to the d1- vider by bolt E and shackle u, and constructed substantially as shown and described, for the purpose set forth.

ALX. ANDERSON. LESLIE JOHNSTON. Witnesses: y

I. H. FLooK, EDWARD MEEK. 

